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Yalegōn jī
Definition
The Sexagenary Cycle; the ten Heavenly Stems and twelve Earthly Branches.
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How it's used
Refers specifically to the traditional Chinese sexagenary cycle used for tracking years, days, and hours. While common in fortune telling or traditional almanacs, it is rarely used in casual daily conversation unless discussing horoscopes or historical dates. It functions as a formal, technical term rather than a colloquial one.
Examples
Do you know what the sexagenary cycle year is this year?
He really likes researching these sexagenary cycle calendar systems.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
